Healthcare professionals' experiences of providing individualized nutritional care for Older People in hospital and home care: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent studies indicate inadequate nutritional care practices in healthcare institutions and identify several barriers to perform individualized nutritional care to older persons. Organisation of care can become rigid and standardised, thus failing to be respectful of and responsive to each person's needs and preferences. There is limited research exploring health professionals' views on how structure of care allows them to individualize nutritional care to older persons. In this study we aim to explore how healthcare professionals' experience providing individualised nutritional care within the organisational frames of acute geriatric hospital care and home care.

Methods

Semi-structured interviews with 23 healthcare professionals from hospital acute geriatric car

SUBMITTER: Hestevik CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6865038 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature